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The website is now down.
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Typical! Bloody Typical.
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Originally Posted by Cholula
Anybody know or want to take a guess at what the offense would be in using a fake BP to get through security??
I can’t think of what law this breaks. Trespassing, and conspiracy to (use your imagination) /pbz |
Originally Posted by us2
The website is now down.
Should be interesting to find out what has transpired. Who's involved? Indiana FBI office, Secret Service and NW's legal and security departments? I can't imagine that the site went down in advance of the website engine creator getting a little shaken. NW can't win the "war on boarding passes" unless it quits the print-your-own-boarding process entirely. ;) And even then it'll still not win against those committed to get airside through the checkpoint. What a crock, when it's clear that boarding pass and ID checks to go through the airport security checkpoints provide near ZERO public safety & security. |
Originally Posted by peachfront
What's the matter with people? Why does he want to make it even harder for flyers? Everybody already knew this, they were just smart enough to shut up about it and not put it in the TSA's face. And I hate to break it to him, but everybody and his brother can edit HTML. I'm on a blogsite where most of the teen posters have far better designed sites than his. He may be a Ph.D. candidate but he doesn't seem to have much in the way of an ability to think things through. I sincerely wish that he is in the back of a three hour line of three thousand spring breakers the next time he is denied the right to check in online. May all his vouchers expire before he can actually find available flights. He wins the peachfront prize as jerk of the week. What an embarrassment to the human race. Some people honestly won't be happy until we're all flying on Naked Air.
Ah, I see he was actually posting as I was. Dude, what the heck were you thinking? ID checking is not an important security measure. It is a jobs program. We need to focus on keeping bombs, guns, and other weapons off the airplanes. We do not need to waste time checking IDs and keeping everyone who has been pickpocketed in Paris from being able to fly home. Absolutely no good can come of this. Think, man, think. Seriously its time we stop following these silly rules. When you break the stupid ones question them. Why do I have to put this single bottle of colgne in a plastic bag and x-ray it again? They don't have an answer other then "Because I said so". Aparently all travelers are little kids. I for one will continue to not put my liquids in plastic bags and make security go looking. If they miss it, great. If they find it, I'll continue to ask why. |
Originally Posted by bocastephen
I don't think DHS can shut him down (except make threats), but NWA has a good case to shut him down - clear misuse of trademarks.
However, here's the law: trademark only protects against confusing or diluting use in commerce. If it's a personal website and has no commercial component, it's not infringement or dilution. |
Originally Posted by peachfront
And I hate to break it to him, but everybody and his brother can edit HTML. I'm on a blogsite where most of the teen posters have far better designed sites than his.
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
.... along with his blog?
And contains the text (in case the blog gets removed too):
Originally Posted by The Blog
Post FBI Visit
The FBI visited. They handed me with a written order to remove the boarding pass generator. By the time we were somewhere with internet access, the website had already been taken down. I am now safe (and no longer with the FBI). Still trying to find a lawyer..... posted by Chris at 7:12 PM | 0 comments FBI at the Door The FBI are at the door. Off to chat. posted by Chris at 3:54 PM | 0 comments |
Originally Posted by studentff
What a dreadful waste of FBI resources. :rolleyes:
I wonder who issued and authorized the written order to remove the boarding pass generator and on what basis such was done. I'm also curious about the process undertaken to remove the website before the website boarding pass creator could do it himself. When can we expect the FBI to hand out orders to software makers and software customers with software that enable the same results? How about makers and owners of printers too? Maybe those will be so-called national security letters and thus cannot be discussed without risking further government threats. :eek: Boarding pass and ID checks at airports are not security. Doesn't the FBI get that? Is everyone who has checked out the site now going to be checked out by the FBI too? Will the FBI question Sen. Schumer and Congressman Markey's staff members too? :D |
Is the FBI going to have a chat with NW about enabling the same too? :D
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Michelle Malkin on NWA Boarding Pass Generator
Sorry if this is elsewhere - the new "search" has me a bit flummoxed.
Anyway, Michelle has a extensive article on the latest idiot to build a boarding pass generator. The money quote on this one is that the guy what wrote it was waiting on legal OK from his university before trying to get through security with it. (She does not mention the Southwest Boarding Pass generator - which is still up!) And just to prove that he's probably one of the FT'ers we all know and love, he refers to the TSA as "Security Theater." Probably couldn't get the reporter to spell Kabuki. I gently take her to task over at my guest-blogging gig at Find-The-Boots, but since our readership is in the thousands (cough) and hers is in the millions I'm sure it'll make a big difference. :D But even though I disagree with her (and many of you) on this particular issue I think it's good that the debate is getting mainstreamed. I mean, we're all just yelling into an echo chamber in flyer land, you know? |
I shudder at the thought of Michelle Malkin being "mainstream."
I'd like to see a hundred more generators up, to highlight this idiocy. (The TSA boarding pass process idiocy - Michelle already does a fine job with her own.) |
Originally Posted by SuiJuris
I shudder at the thought of Michelle Malkin being mainstream.
I'd take MM over Katie or her ilk anyday. :cool: |
Originally Posted by TierFlyer
Mainstream compared to the denizens of FlyerTalk and other similar boards. There are a lot of people who travel, but not so many who travel frequently, and even fewer who hang out here.
I'd take MM over Katie or her ilk anyday. :cool: And contrary to earlier speculation in your post, he's not a frequent posting FTer; he's a FTer who did this because he wants more "serious" ID and boarding pass checks. That's a position I ridicule since ID checks are not security, not when it comes to travellers. Anything wrong with posting this material in the main thread about this topic and continuing the discussion there? Here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=617571 |
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